Exterior facade by AL_A
An innovative exterior precedent by AL_A contrasting high-texture fluted ceramic modules with mirrored facades that dissolve the building mass into its landscape setting.
- What we like about this project
- The mirrored stainless steel panels completely dissolve the building corners, making the solid volumes appear to vanish into the garden trees.
Materials
- ceramic
- mirrored-stainless-steel
- glass
- gravel
Visual identifiers
- fluted-ceramic-wall
- mirrored-cladding
- camouflaged-facade
- pavilion-architecture
Style tags
- contemporary
- material-driven
- experimental
- phenomenological
Visual tags
- reflective
- tactile
- pavilion
- landscape-integrated
- textured-envelope
- Geometry
- An angled composition juxtaposing a heavy, fluted ceramic privacy wall against reflective mirrored volumes that dissolve into the surrounding trees and sky.
- Facade system
- Combination of custom fluted ceramic pilasters/panels and highly reflective polished stainless steel rainscreen panels.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with non-loadbearing exterior rainscreen cladding.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story pavilion scale, intimate human approach.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight with warm interior lighting glowing from deep within the glazed threshold.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet, ethereal, and surprising as the solid architecture dematerializes through reflection.
- Environmental context
- A landscaped garden setting with native plantings, gravel pathways, and sparse deciduous trees framing the building edge.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching along a gravel path, the user is guided between the tactile solid mass of the fluted wall and the camouflaged, immaterial reflections of the mirrored wings.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical fluting on the ceramic wall creates a dense, repeating linear rhythm that contrasts with the unbroken planes of mirror.
- Style reading
- Contemporary material-experimental pavilion
- Program
- Cultural pavilion or garden gallery
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- ceramic, mirrored-stainless-steel, glass, gravel
- Visual identifiers
- fluted-ceramic-wall, mirrored-cladding, camouflaged-facade, pavilion-architecture
- Style tags
- contemporary, material-driven, experimental, phenomenological
- Visual tags
- reflective, tactile, pavilion, landscape-integrated, textured-envelope
- Geometry
- An angled composition juxtaposing a heavy, fluted ceramic privacy wall against reflective mirrored volumes that dissolve into the surrounding trees and sky.
- Facade system
- Combination of custom fluted ceramic pilasters/panels and highly reflective polished stainless steel rainscreen panels.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with non-loadbearing exterior rainscreen cladding.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story pavilion scale, intimate human approach.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight with warm interior lighting glowing from deep within the glazed threshold.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet, ethereal, and surprising as the solid architecture dematerializes through reflection.
- Environmental context
- A landscaped garden setting with native plantings, gravel pathways, and sparse deciduous trees framing the building edge.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching along a gravel path, the user is guided between the tactile solid mass of the fluted wall and the camouflaged, immaterial reflections of the mirrored wings.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical fluting on the ceramic wall creates a dense, repeating linear rhythm that contrasts with the unbroken planes of mirror.
- Style reading
- Contemporary material-experimental pavilion
- Program
- Cultural pavilion or garden gallery
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture